What Is a Team?

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“People acting together as a group can accomplish things that no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.”

—Franklin Delano Roosevelt

A team can certainly be described as a group of people organized to work together, or a group who do similar work or who report to the same person. But the kind of team you will be leading is much more than these brief descriptions.

Identify the types of “teams”

Teams are not all alike when it comes to their design or their demands on team members. To make things a bit more complicated, not every “team” is really a team, and some groups that are called by other names occasionally ...

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